I do not object to being sent the video - I signed up for emails from the Macular Society. I expect to be upset - it's a most upsetting condition. What I object to is the total negativity of the message, the hopelessness and helplessness it seems to me to convey.

I need just a glimmer of hope! Any faint glimmer would do...like a mention of the existing treatments for wer AMD, or the research projects, or the encouraging results of stem cell therapy, or the good results from nutritional supplements and diet - I could go on, and to be fair these do all feature on the Society's website but I wonder if this 'stark' and 'scary' film makes many people go to the website. (You can find it here.)

At the end of the video, where it says 'How to protect your sight today' I would like to see a link direct to information on how to do that. Did watching the film make any of you look up the website and send for the information pack about protecting your sight? I have sent for it to see what they send out. I am very pleased to see the site now has a nutrition and diet page to download. They say 'there is currently no cure' for the condition - but there are treatments which are thought to slow down the deterioration.

I can understand that the Society does not want to create false hope, but neither should they create false hopelessness.

Thank you so much for all the energy reviving suggestions! I was tired after the gardening marathon (I won't ever let it get as neglected again) and I am melting in this heatwave, but on reflection I have realised that it was this video that brought me low.

I got it in an email from the Macular Society who ask that you share it with family and friends.

,I wonder what your impression of it is? Did it make you want to know more about how to 'protect your sight today'?

This week is Macular Week. Some of you know that I have this eye condition. Ten years on from the optician first mentioning it, my eyes are not nearly as bad as those of the woman in this film. I am luckier than some. Most of the time I can see very well.

I've written several posts about it (under Simply Seeing..Or Not on the sidebar).